"OUR BOYS."

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2223, 7 October 1886, Page 2

" OUR BOYS."

A third performance of this ever-popular comedy came off on Tuesday night in the Oddfellows' Hall, Hamilton, in aid of the painting the fence of S. Peter's Parsonage. The attendance was good, exceedingly good, considering that the windows of heaven were open all the evening. The previous performances have commanded such general encomia that we shall not attempt "to paint the lily," but shall satisfy ourselves with a few brief remarks. The lady who acted "Belinda," was a credit to any stage, and " Mary Melrose " was also a very successful impersonation, as well as " A.unt Clarissa " and " Violet." The only adverse criticism we heard on Mr Greville Smith's reading of " Sir Geoffrey Champneys " was that it smacked too much of the heavy stage father, an unwitting compliment in our opinion, as the character is essentially of the stage, stagey. Mr Templer, as "Talbot Champneya" was irresistibly comic in the earlier stages and showed genuine histrionic talent in his development of the latent energy in his character. Mr T. G. Sandes in the latter portions of hiseasay was the genuine " Butterman," and Mr H. Steele as " Charlie " woi ked up to a very sympathetic rendering of his part in the last act. The waits between the acts were unavoidably rather long in point of time, but the excellent musical interludes provided by Miss Missen an<4 her pupils, Misses Knox and Florence Graham, not merely prevented any sense of tedium, but were in themselves not the least enjoyable part of the evening's entertainment.